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From: Tony Griffiths <tonyg@OntheNet.com.au>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: 2.1.6 & Iomega Jaz
Date: Wed, 19 Mar 1997 11:39:11 +1000
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H. Eckert wrote:
> 
> Pascal.Gienger@uni-konstanz.de (Pascal Gienger):
> > notice that you can't eject your jaz disk unless you unmount all partitions
> > on it. But it is however a bad idea that the jaz drives notices the press
> > on his eject button and will execute the eject after unmounting... Very bad
> > idea...
> 
> Do you care to elaborate ?  Does this apply to Zip drives too ?

From memory (I don't have my 2 Zip drives connected to a FreeBSD system
at the
moment), the Zip drive doesn't allow ejecting while a filesystem is
mounted!
However, I don't think it "remembers" that the eject button was pushed
so it
should 'automatically' eject when the umount is complete.

Tony